Bergdahl's release wasn't worth it; Should there be a two-tier economy for all?

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Bergdahl’s release wasn’t worth it

I’m a seven year U.S. Army veteran with decorated combat service in Vietnam, so I know what I’m talking about... Bergdahl is no soldier. He’s a traitor who deserted his post during war time and should be court-martialed and sent to prison. Real soldiers died trying to locate him. If one thinks the five released Jihadists from Gitmo are going back home to open a Kool-Aid stand in downtown Kabul, you’re smoking something that is currently legal in a handful of states. They’ll be back killing and/or plotting to kill innocent people and Americans in no time. The blood of those innocents will be on Obama’s hands.

Rick Sage,

Royal Oak

Should there be a two-tier economy for all?

By lowering the wages and bringing down the middle class to poverty levels, shouldn’t the greedy one percent pay the same percent for goods and services that the 99 percent of Americans pay? Since the elite are not helping the economy grow, as hard working Americans do, they are not buying goods to help America. The bottom poor percent of workers still have to buy a new refrigerator, even though they have low wages and it makes it a hardship. We need to make things and sell them to bring back America to its illustriousness. How many refrigerators are the rich and powerful buying?

Middle class families used to enjoy going out to the movies. Today’s prices make it a luxury few can afford. If the $8-an-hour worker pays two hours work just to get in at the movies, shouldn’t the CEO pay $1,600, the same two hours of wages? Many CEOs make 100 times more than their lowest paid workers.

We need fairness in America. If we applied this concept, we would see wages going up and prices coming down. The powerful CEOs would not allow their wealth to be diminished by paying the same percentage as the poor.

The workers of America can’t pay millions of dollars to lobbyists for tax loopholes to protect their wages as corporate business does, but we can write letters to our government leaders, who favor the rich and powerful, and demand fairness. There are a lot more of us than there are the billionaires that are destroying this great nation. As the rich try to buy our votes with false ads, we, the shrinking middle class Americans, still have the most powerful tool: the vote.